Jaklapallisaurus

Name: Jaklapallisaurus.
Phonetic: Jak-lah-pal-le-sor-us.
Named By: F.‭ ‬E.‭ ‬Novas,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬D.‭ ‬Ezcurra,‭ ‬S.‭ ‬Chatterjee‭ & ‬T.‭ ‬S.‭ ‬Kutty‭ ‬-‭ ‬2011.
Classification: Chordata,‭ ‬Reptilia,‭ ‬Dinosauira,‭ ‬Saurischia,‭ ‬Sauropodomorpha,‭ ‬Plateosauria,‭ ‬Plateosauridae.
Species: J.‭ ‬asymmetrica‭ (‬type‭)‬.
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain, but possibly about 2.5 meters long.
Known locations: India‭ ‬-‭ ‬Upper Maleri Formation.
Time period: Norian/Rhaetian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: ‭P‬artial post cranial skeletal remains.

       Jaklapallisaurus is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in what is now India during the latest Triassic.

Further reading
-‭ ‬New dinosaur species from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri and Lower Dharmaram formations of Central India.‭ ‬-‭ ‬Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh‭ ‬101:333-349.‭ ‬-‭ ‬F.‭ ‬E.‭ ‬Novas,‭ ‬M.‭ ‬D.‭ ‬Ezcurra,‭ ‬S.‭ ‬Chatterjee‭ & ‬T.‭ ‬S.‭ ‬Kutty‭ ‬-‭ ‬2011.
- An exceptionally preserved association of complete dinosaur skeletons reveals the oldest long-necked sauropodomorphs. - Biology Letters. 14 (11): 20180633. - Rodrigo Temp M�ller, Max Cardoso Langer & S�rgio Dias-da-Silva - 2018.

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